Sunday, September 30, 2012

I've been stuck at home sick with the stomach flu all week. To pass the time between trips to my bedside bucket, I've been watching Weeds start to finish. Maybe a second-hand high will take care of my nausea right? While each season has been more ridiculous than the last (with convoluted plots increasingly hard to stomach), penultimate season 7 at least offers a heap of near-naked man meat to distract my angry gut. In addition to an underground male model boxing club, there is Dimitri, the main character Nancy's Russian lover/lesbian lover's brother. There is even a scene where Dimitri jacks off watching Nancy and his sister scissor. The actor who plays Dimitri, Pablo Schreiber, is not only hot, with man-tits for miles, he also appeared in Baltimore's own drug related melodrama The Wire as working class dock worker Nick Sabotka. The circle of life is complete! Gastroenteritus Norovirus from LA leads to bedridden SoCAL Weeds marathon in Baltimore with Wire actor Pablo Schreiber. One more season to go and I'm cured!

In addition to being cute as fuck, "Hunk with Hair" Placido lives in the Eternal City of Rome. Like Federico Fellini, Placido believes in dreams. "I am one of those fools who believe
that they could live with love and bread." He describes himself as "post-romantic", in a state of perpetual melancholy, "but not sad as always looking for something good
to happen." He's an archaeologist who loves art so much he thinks he may have Stendhal syndrome. Not surprisingly, museums and exhibitions are his
favorite places.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

New heights in narcissistic self-love? Not quite. A twitter follower sent in this flattering Colby Doppelganger of perennial Colby Crush Jake Gyllenhaal, from his recent performance in "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet".

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

No, this isn't an archival autopsy photo from Roswell, though it might as well be. It's actually an legless, lungless amphibian recently discovered in the Madeira River basin in Brazil. Nicknamed the "trouser snake", scientists knew of atretochoana eiselti only from two preserved specimens in a Vienna museum until 2011 when a living eiselti was discovered in Brazil. Unlike it's closest relatives, this particular species doesn't use lungs but a series of capillaries capable of gas exchange that course through its epidermis. It also has several muscles in its head unknown to any other organism on earth.

In case atretochoana isn't exactly the trouser snake you were looking for, here are few more examples I found online:

Thanks to BSD reader Richard for finding the real trouser snake and passing it along.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

The best part of Malibu's Getty Villa is not the plethora of castrated male kouros or gold leaf garlands but the children's activity room-- replete with rotating shadow wall, Styrofoam prop cabinet and dry-erase fiberglass amphorae mock-ups. A quick trip to Santa Monica to sample ridiculously fancy pastries (accentuating a quick dip in the Pacific) made my most recent La La land work-cation complete. Outside the Industry's painfully complicated new Syphilis testing procedure, who could complain.

On my cross country roadtrip this summer, Minister of Propaganda Karl Marxxx and I made a quick pit stop in Minnesota to spank some butts and snap some pics. It just so happened our itinerary landed us in Minneapolis just in time for the start of the national gay softball league tournament. To celebrate the happy coincidence, erotic photographer Marlen Boro treated me to my own special boudoir glamour shot session. Only the magic of soft natural light and a talented eye could hide the obvious result of four days of fast food and 20 hours behind the wheel. Thanks Marlen!